Category: ai

ai / family / robots

September 4, 2025

What does AI remind me of?

I’ve been thinking for a while that the Open AI’s irritating chatbot reminds me of someone. This morning I figured it out: It acts like my brothers did toward me, their quite-a-bit younger sister,...

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Welcome, and thanks for visiting. The site is about writing, which I most often take to be a technology for "translating" sound to surface, ephemeral event to durable text, embodied to disembodied authority. I know there's a before, after, and "in addition to" as well: there are amazing ancient writing systems, or lines made by electrocardiographs or weather forecasting instruments that count as writing for me as well. And there's the threat of a deference to robotic readers undermining human language as such. I'm optimistic, however.

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DIGGING ENGLISH: Cornish Gardening with an American accent
INDETERMINATE: Reality before we impose ourselves on it
HOMO SCRIVENS: A writing animal

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